{"id":33490,"date":"2026-09-14T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33490"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:03:39","slug":"clare-696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33490","title":{"rendered":"Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">Clare &#8211; Dinar Guru<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Article:\u00a0 &#8220;<strong><em>The Guardian: Al-Zaidi is leading an unprecedented campaign to dismantle the financial\u00a0empires of political parties in Iraq<\/em><\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 Quote: &#8220;<em>The newspaper quoted an international banker as saying that\u00a0<strong>political parties in\u00a0Iraq have historically created states within a state, siphoning off between 5% and 10% of the value of every government contract to\u00a0finance their influence and headquarters<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare &#8211; Dinar Guru\u00a0\u00a0Article:\u00a0 &#8220;The Guardian: Al-Zaidi is leading an unprecedented campaign to dismantle the financial\u00a0empires of political parties in Iraq&#8221;\u00a0 Quote: &#8220;The newspaper quoted an international banker as saying that\u00a0political parties in\u00a0Iraq have historically created states within a state, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gMgY-8Ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33491,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33490\/revisions\/33491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}